Immense wealth, and its lavish expenditure, fill the great house with all that can please the eye, or tempt the taste. Here, appetite, not food, is the great desideratum.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSThere is no negro problem. The problem is whether the American people have loyalty enough, honor enough, patriotism enough, to live up to their own constitution.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
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My hopes were never brighter than now.
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Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
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What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
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It’s a poor rule that won’t work both ways.
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Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever.
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Educate your sons and daughters, send them to school, and show them that beside the cartridge box, the ballot box, and the jury box, you also have the knowledge box.
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Man’s greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.
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The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.
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I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.
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I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress.
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Slaves sing most when they are most unhappy. The songs of the slave represent the sorrows of his heart; and he is relieved by them, only as an aching heart is relieved by its tears.
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People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.
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Our community belongs to us and whether it is mean or majestic, whether arrayed in glory or covered in shame, we cannot but share its character and destiny.
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What upon Earth is the matter with the American people? Do they really covet the world’s ridicule as well as their own social and political ruin?
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